H-Sphere 3.0 Features

H-Sphere installation/update:

• Common script for H-Sphere installation/update
• H-Sphere Installation Wizard via CP
• Added non-interactive commandline mode for the install/update script
• Added the 'revert' option to downgrade system packages to the previous versions
• Added customizing other files included into H-Sphere packages
• Excluding default MySQL/PostgreSQL versions from H-Sphere update
• Added possibility to choose an alternative psoft mirror site for downloading packages during installation/update.

Control Panel:

• Affiliate support for moderated signups
• Ensim migration into H-Sphere
• Added possibility to access CP via alternative CP URLs
• AccountCheck report to fix broken resources under accounts
• Improved Trouble Ticket system
• Deleted accounts can be restored from admin CP. Their data is now stored as XML in the system HS DB.
• Added custom icons for mailobjects using custom antispam /antivirus settings
• Extended Unix and Windows usernames up to 16 characters
• Major menu and navigation improvements in admin CP for XPressia, XPressia Light and Left Menu designs
• Implemented a framework for switching plans between Unix and Windows platforms (by means of a separate .hsp package - beta version).
• Implemented blacklist for emails and domains (with wildcard) to make them unavailable for end users.

Simplified reseller:

• Markup Plans created by H-Sphere admin with predefined resources and prices to be resold by resellers
• Now resellers will automatically obtain both administrative and user accounts upon signup.

Load Balancing:

• New scheme of load balancing in H-Sphere
• LB cluster implementation with generic Linux NFS shared storage
• Added load balanced mail server cluster implementation
• Added GFS filer support
• Choosing remote Web and MySQL Logical Servers for Horde Webmail
• Choosing remote Web logical servers for phpMyAdmin/phpPgAdmin frontends
• Choosing remote MySQL logical servers for SpamAssassin DB

Mail System:

• Mail hosting under service domain for 3rd level domains
• Alphabetical sorting of mailboxes into lists with "first-letter" navigation on the Mail controls page introduced in user CP
• Catch All and forwards disabled for the postmaster mailbox
• New scheme of mail bouncing: added bouncingip, temperror, strictbounce, maxwrongrcpts qmail params
• Outgoing IP and Bouncing IP managed from CP interface
• MIME types option added for AntiVirus resource
• Added ability to configure mail relay and other IP/Subnet dependent Qmail settings
• Added qmail-spp engine aimed to add rblspp plugin
• Added possibility to change mailbox password outside H-Sphere CP.

Billing System:

• Sequential numbering for billing statements
• Added psoft/hsphere/country_info.xml to add non-US/Canada states to contact/billing info forms.

Windows Features and Improvements

• SharePoint support
• Switching between versions of ASP.NET and PHP in Web settings of a user domain
• Added Dedicated Application Pool, Web Directory and Web Application resources
• Improved Winbox security scheme: subaccounts of one FTP account can't access directories of each other
• Improved Winbox Shared SSL scheme

Comodo SSL:

• Ability for resellers to resell ComodoSSL certificates
• ComodoSSL Certificate renewal

Dedicated Hosting:

• Creating PTR zones for dedicated hosting
• Adding reverse DNS (PTR) records for IPs

Other Unix Features:

• Webshell in CGI mode with possibility to enable it for particular Logical Server
• Removed deprecated merchant gateways: Ematic, IONgate, InterCept, PayAndShop, Payready
• Support for FreeBSD 6.0, 6.1, 6.2
• Support for RedHat EL 4 x86_64 and Centos 4 x86_64
• Redesigned default error pages for H-Sphere Control Panel and Web servers
• Improved design of Skeleton Files